Editor's Blog — Author

Writing What I Know

Writing a story takes time, time that grants me the opportunity to feel the effect of my words as I lay them out one beside the other.

William KenowerMay 23, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Stories, SufferingComment

A Bad Formula

I’ll not find the next cool thing to do by trying to do what I think I should.

William KenowerMay 18, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Laura Munson, Advice Comment

Freedom

I thought that once I was successful, I would be free at last from doing something I didn’t want to do, and that what I was doing always determined how I felt.

William KenowerMay 16, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Success, Feeling Comment

Equal Moments

Sometimes as writers we simply don’t trust our audience to get just how big a deal something is.

William KenowerMay 11, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Suffering, Memoir, Equality Comment

Waiting at the Window

You can stare out that window your whole life, and people will never all agree.

William KenowerMay 9, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Opinions, JudgmentComment

All is Well

It’s the pain of doubting that tells me I needn’t doubt.

William KenowerMay 4, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Hope, Despair, TrustComment

Necessary Magic

The point of art is to capture reality by limiting what we see of it.

William KenowerMay 2, 2022Willia Kenower, Writing, Art, Orson Wells, MeaningComment

Innocent

I only enjoyed the experience because I dropped all my judgment and prejudice and just let myself be where I was.

William KenowerApril 27, 2022William Kenower, Trials, JudgmentComment

Error-Free

My inner-critic is what I sound like when I believe I have to do something to please someone else.

William KenowerApril 25, 2022William Kenower, Music, Writing, CriticismComment

The Two Weights

How useful misery can be when it reminds me of what I’d forgotten

William KenowerApril 20, 2022Writing, Music, Guitars, Criticism, PraiseComment

The One Responsible

So much of writing is believing you have everything you need, that you’re perfectly equipped to tell the story you must want to tell.

William KenowerApril 18, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Advice, Stories Comment

Valuable Stillness

My true creativity reacts to nothing, but is an expansion of an idea already in motion.

William KenowerApril 13, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Stillness, MusicComment

McGuffins

Believe you really need something, anything, and your life seems to hang in the balance.

William KenowerApril 11, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Tolkien, McGuffin, ValueComment

Stay Grateful

Writing itself is a bit of an out of body experience.

William KenowerApril 6, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Natashia Deon, InspirationComment

Everyone's Story

No one can know our story as we do.

William KenowerApril 4, 2022Writing, Stories, Memoir, Will Smith, Chris RockComment

The Explorer

The scene that had felt so alive the day before seemed dead to me today.

William KenowerMarch 30, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Exploration, MeaningComment

No Question

If you are a writer, do not ask a question unless you are curious about the answer.

William KenowerMarch 28, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Learning, Questions, CuriosityComment

The First Choice

Every tree was once a seed and every story was once an interesting idea.

William KenowerMarch 23, 2022Writing, William Kenower, ChoiceComment

Timing

Something was odd. There was only one other car, which was driving at that moment up the onramp and into the ferry.

William KenowerMarch 21, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Timing, LuckComment

Perfect

Theoretically, there was a correct – a perfect – number of grounds to make the best brew.

William KenowerMarch 16, 2022Writing, Success, William Kenower, PerfectionComment